There We Are

There we are

On a path, along the Tennessee River

With your teeth bared and your soft hair, brown-blonde

There we are

On a highway, with an empty gallon water jug

Bag-wrapped gas, dragging our feet back to my dad's old Pontiac

There we are

Blackberry deep breath

Your head rests on my bare chest in a damn room

And there's a soft tune that's only heard by you and me

There we are again

With a gas can and a fat man with a good laugh

In a ride back to the exact moment we fell apart

We need a new car

There we are

You're laughing on a ceramic beast, with your hand relaxed on the brass pole impaling him

Our eyes are locked, and in my pocket

A ring, of all things

There we are

And it's raining

And we are falling in love again in front of everyone

I know nothing but your name, and I know it endlessly

I know it in my sleep

I know it in the sea

That roars beyond and out of me

I know it only

I know you only

There we are